Ashley Madison hack fallout begins as security analysts say data dump is genuine MORE than than 700 Australian government officials and police officers have been caught up in the Ashley Madison cheating scandal. A breakdown of the statistics showed most heavily affected branches were the defence and education departments with 408 and 504 email addresses found respectively, according to data published online. A total of 81 email addresses were found for police officers. Security experts say personal details of millions of users of the Ashley Madison website released by hackers appear to be genuine, as the fallout from the massive …